{"id":128846,"date":"2019-07-22T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=128846"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:29:25","slug":"dr-takes-big-steps-to-reduce-hiv-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/dr-takes-big-steps-to-reduce-hiv-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"DR takes big steps to reduce HIV\/AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HIV-Pixabay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128870\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HIV-Pixabay.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HIV-Pixabay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/HIV-Pixabay-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Data published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) reveals that new HIV cases in the country have decreased compared to previous years. The report also shows a decrease in deaths from AIDS, a slight increase in those currently living with HIV, and an increase in people who have coverage while receiving treatment for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2018, UNAIDS in its reports on the Dominican Republic, highlights that the number of new infections (all ages) fell from an estimated 2,800 people to 2,700 compared to 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With respect to Dominicans currently living with HIV (all ages), the number of people increased over the previous year, by an estimated 69,000 to 70,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deaths annually have maintained a steady decline in statistics since 2004, when the point was at its highest, with an estimated 5,900 people, decreasing progressively to 1,200 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 38,952 individuals, including children and adults are receiving treatment. These numbers place the Dominican Republic as one of the countries of Latin America with greater &#8220;progress&#8221; in the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/07\/21\/574864\/rd-entre-los-paises-con-mayores-avances-en-disminucion-de-nuevos-casos-de-vihsida\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) reveals that new HIV cases in the country have decreased compared to previous years. The report also shows a decrease in deaths from AIDS, a slight increase in those currently living with HIV, and an increase in people who have coverage while receiving treatment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/dr-takes-big-steps-to-reduce-hiv-aids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128871,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846\/revisions\/128871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}